vv another one i haven't spun in awhile... the first four songs always blow me away;
lots of sub on this, the bass is a beauty, Fripp incorporates incredible electronic
treatments and Adrian Belew sings beautifully...

This is one of those strange occurrences we used to get in the music business,
and what started as a moneymaking venture ended as a small cult masterpiece
that can be very appreciated now... got more soul than the Eagles.George Martin, the Beatles studio maestro, produced this 1976 surprise.

The only way to get this back in the 90's on cd was to pay $42 for the Jap import.

Even if you lost interest in post '74 Heroes R Hard 2 Find - Fleetwood Mac, as I did, this is
what a studio album is all about. With a band that can't get much more popular, what are you going
to do next? Floyd did it with their double, Led Zep did too. Both of those popular lps
were received a little differently than Tusk. Tusk of course charted, but that was about
it. I remember, I was there. LOL

The bitching and moaning started almost immediately, about how some of the songs were too odd,
too experimental. Two huge previous lps of pop relationship bliss and the States couldn't get
enough, then Tusk... WTF! I laugh now because over half of it is in the same vein of the former
two releases. Lindsey Buckingham proved himself quite the pop genius maestro
on this one; glad they let him run amok in the studio. It is and was their last great album
for me. This one was brilliant... pop, progressive, aggressive, with some bouncy
fandango folk thrown in for good measure. I have not listened to this in some time,
but it never fails to amaze me musically, even more so than its release history.

I thought the 80's would be a wonderful decade where music and arts were concerned, but
the Tusk reception should have been a signal, an omen that the cerebral rush of
mush was about to begin. I kid sort of, but sometimes my great expectations fall as
flat as vinyl.